Private acquisitions & disposals

Our global corporate practice regularly advises on domestic and cross-border private M&A transactions. We have established practices throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the US providing a global presence and local expertise wherever our clients or the target's business is located.

Clients and sector focus

We advise on complex and strategic private M&A transactions for the world's leading corporations, financial institutions and sponsors.  Our sector focused approach aligns groups of partners, lawyers and industry analysts who have a detailed, specialist understanding of particular sectors from a business, legal and regulatory standpoint.  The firm's global teams in the Investment Management, Banking, Energy & Infrastructure, Healthcare, Private Equity, Real Estate, Industrials, Transport and Logistics, TMT, Insurance and Consumer Goods & Retail sectors enable us to effectively undertake private M&A transactions across a broad range of sectors.

For details of our recent experience, see our global M&A deals page.

Approach to private M&A

Working in teams drawn from across our network, we provide pragmatic, commercially focused advice in a manner that facilitates the successful execution of transactions.  Our standard and efficient working practices ensure value for money, whilst our global standards provide a consistent and first class service across our international network.  We advise on high-end, complex auction and other sale processes.  Our deep and broad M&A experience enables us to offer tactical and strategic advice to sellers or buyers.

Depth and breadth of resources

Our global M&A standards are complemented by specialist teams from across our finance, anti-trust, tax, pensions, employment and real estate practices who provide the necessary legal expertise for all types of M&A.  The number and range of deals on which our market-leading acquisition finance practice advises, acting both for borrowers and lenders, gives us a unique market insight into successful financings, allowing us to identify problems and work with our clients to find solutions.  Our unrivalled depth and breadth of resources comes to the fore in terms of our ability to provide specialist advice across our global network.  The firm's specialists work with our M&A lawyers in multi-disciplinary, cross-border teams to provide a seamless, integrated service.